(Salt Lake City, UT) — A Utah bill affecting homeless shelters is still not law as it awaits Governor Cox’s signature. HB421 was passed during the recent legislative session. This legislation is called the Homelessness and Vulnerable Populations Amendments. Once signed, the bill requires homeless resource centers wanting state funding […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah will have some of the lowest electric rates in the U.S. this year. The cost of electricity for most customers is a little more than one-thousand dollars annually. Utah residents reportedly only paid 11.03 cents per kilowatt hour in 2023 — one-and-a-half times lower […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — After weeks of outages, all Utah Medicaid patients should be able to fill their prescriptions. Yesterday, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services reported that Change Healthcare’s system — which had been experiencing the outages — had been restored. Officials say they’ll continue to […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House has launched a nationwide call-to-action to save lives from opioid overdoses. In its Wednesday announcement, the Biden-Harris Administration said it hopes the new effort will help get Naloxone, a drug meant to reverse opioid overdose, into as many communities as possible, increase […]
Jeffrey Greenberg/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Doors are closing for 1,000 Dollar Tree and Family Dollar locations after the discount variety store chain announced an unexpected surprise fourth-quarter loss in its earnings report Wednesday. Dollar Tree plans to shutter 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of fiscal 2024. […]
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (PONTIAC, Mich.) — James Crumbley, the father of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley, will not testify in his manslaughter trial as the defense rested after just one witness Wednesday. After the jury was removed from the courtroom, James Crumbley was asked questions by his attorney under oath, […]
Image Source/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day investigative hearing on the Alaska Air door plug incident, the agency announced Tuesday. The hearing will take place on Aug. 6 and 7, with the location and other details to be announced at a later […]
Mahogany Jackson is seen pictured. (Birmingham Police Department) (NEW YORK) — Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was found shot in the back of the head on Feb. 26 by the side of a road in a remote area in Birmingham, Alabama, hours after she texted her mother saying that she had […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — Three women and a dog were found dead in two separate apartments in Las Vegas as police say they shot and killed a potential suspect in the case who confronted them with a firearm, authorities say. The incident began on Tuesday afternoon at approximately […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two men have been charged after allegedly bombing a woman’s home and planning to release “a large python into the victim’s home to eat the victim’s daughter,” according to prosecutors. Stephen Glosser, 37, and Caleb Kinsey, 34 — both from Richmond Hill, Georgia — are […]
